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It set the 24 hour sales record for any entertainment property ever with $360M, but Call of Duty: Black Ops has just shattered another record to land it the title as the best selling game of all time in the US.

NPD analyst Anita Frazier said, "Call of Duty: Black Ops was the best-selling game in February, retaining the top selling spot since launch in November. It has now become the best-selling game in history, topping Wii Play.”

The firm adds that the title has sold 13.7 million units in the US alone. Wii Play previously held the top spot, but some pointed to the fact that it came packaged with almost every new Wii as evidence that it might have an unfair advantage over other titles.

But that game was only for one system, while Black Ops spans across three consoles and the PC. Activision may have been worried during the only Infinity Ward fiasco that they wouldn’t be able to replicate Modern Warfare 2’s success, but Treyarch stepped up and delivered what has now become the best selling video game title in history. Impressive, and expect this franchise to live a long, long life if it can maintain sales of this magnitude in future installments.